BEDA 29: words and stuff

Today was such a great day, but yet I'm so incredibly tired; thus the reason that this is a short blog post for today.

It's weird to think that in a few months time, it would have been a year since this photo was taken.  It was taken on Veteran's Day at our church banquet that our youth group has put on for the last three years.  I had just recently started using my wheelchair when this photo was taken at the banquet.  It's kind of a weird concept to me how fast time can pass us by, I can't believe that it would have been a year since I started using my wheelchair, and now look at me.  I would have never believed anyone if they had told me my future within the next eight months after that photo. I would have looked them square in the eyes and told them they were kidding me.

On a side note, not really anything to do with the thought from above; but still goes along with this phot, these four girls that are in the photo with me, are four of my close friends.  I don't see them as often as I would like, but I still see them nonetheless.  They share what I haven't really been able to share with most of my friends, my love for God. They understand my views on religion and we always have a good time together.  I'm so lucky to be able to have the opportunity to go with these four ladies to New Orleans this summer for a national church gathering.  The "gang" as our youth leader called us a couple of weeks ago, is back together again.

Today was awesome because: so many good things happened today, I can't even begin to explain. Just know that it was an awesome day.

days until the fall musical: 48
days until I become an adult: 130
days until graduation: 264
steps taken today: 10,016+

a different town

For all of my 17 years of life, I have lived out in the country, on the same property around the same neighbors.  This past week, my mom and I moved into town into a two story, with a basement, house that had been modified into apartments.  We're on the main floor, and it's really quite nice here, so nice, I've given the place a name; the Nest.  The Nest sits besides the road that bends around from the railroad down to main street.  Let's just say there's so much traffic that I can't even count the number of cars I see, or the trains that pass.  So much traffic, I like to sit on the front porch and wave at people as they pass by.  I'm thinking about making cookies or something and when the trains come by and the cars are all backed up in front of the Nest, go sell them for fifty cents each...but that involves a city permit or something too much work for a simple act of awesome.

Anyway, this is day three of staying in the Nest and there's just so much new stuff.  The sounds are so different from living out in the country.  Instead of hearing birds and wind, now I hear cars and trains.  Really, that's about it, aside from the three birds that were playing outside one of my bedroom windows, and the occasional crappy car that clunks it's way around the road.

I'm about to embark on a journey.  From the Nest down to Main Street to the public libary, walking.  After my hip replacement my surgeon said the best thing to do to that hip is to just walk.  Considering the fact that I enjoy going on walks, and that I wanna do the 5k run/walk that's coming up sometime within the next month, I'm excited to get to walk around the town that I've been passing through and doing various things in for my entire life.  It's practically like it's a new town almost, there's so much "new" things to me.

Oh, and a side note, about two months ago I had started a "50 books in a year" thing, but I lost all my stuff I had written down...which reallly wasn't much.  So I'm starting over, today officially.  And so I won't be losing my stuff, I'll be blogging about it...kind of.  More details within the next days.  Book suggestions are welcomed, I'm always up to try a new book.